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The title caught my eye instantly in Carbon Tracker’s monthly newsletter so I quickly downloaded the report and signed up for the associated webinar. I also quickly found the analysis focused exclusively on the UK and some very specific conditions but it got me thinking about Carbon Capture Usage and Storage and Colombia.

The Director General of the National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA), Rodrigo Negrete Montes, talked about the sanctions for environmental damages in the last year.

At the Latin American Youth Climate Conference hosted in Bogotá this year, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente), Susana Muhamad, reaffirmed Colombia’s commitment to the proposals it will present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

The Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente), led by Minister Susana Muhamad, is taking proactive steps to ensure transparency and citizen participation in the election process of directors for the Regional Autonomous Corporations (CAR).

This rather succinct but perhaps unpleasant phrase came from an unidentified French cabinet minister, quoted in a The Telegraph article on Great Britain’s broken infrastructure planning process. It seems Colombia’s peers also have great problems with prior consultation and no good solutions.

Last year, we guess BP tired of doing the industry’s statistical gathering for free. Whatever the reason, it spun out the division doing this work and the Energy Institute took over creating and publishing the Statistical Review of World Energy Data.

The world will need the extraction of minerals to advance in the transition to renewable energy sources, generating a challenge to the mining sector.

National business newspaper Portafolio recently interviewed National Environmental Licensing Agency head Rodrigo Negrete to understand his plans for the institution. He talked about having more rigor, decentralizing and alluded to formally including community feedback in the licensing process.

Via a press release GeoPark announced a biodiversity training program in partnership with Colombia’s Biodiversity Information System (SiB Colombia), the CNAB water and biodiversity center of National Entrepreneurs’ Association ANDI and the Global Biodiversity Information Infrastructure (GBIF): The Corporate Management for Nature: Training Path to Biodiversity Data Mobility.

The first alarms were at 4:15am Wednesday, December 21, from the port area of Compas, first a fire and then explosions. Several firepersons were injured and one was killed. The storage facilities of Bravo Petroleum are affected.